But some critics said that Google’s decision to use e-mail and chat correspondence as the basis of a social network was fundamentally misguided. While it is common for social networks to make public a person’s list of friends and followers, those lists are not typically created from e-mail conversations.
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Critics Say Google Invades Privacy With New Service
This could have worked if Google had presented Buzz users with a list of their frequent e-mail contacts, allowing them to select who they’d like to “invite” to share their buzz. The auto-selection followed by subsequent notification of who is already following you is the fundamental issue. See: My Google Buzz Rant
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